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This word is usually reconstructed as an archaic athematic *-wṓs active participle *sēpwōs.[1][2] However, there is no trace of the second -s- in Volscian sepu, which can only come from thematic *sēpwos. The Oscan can come from either formation. How the Volscian form arose is controversial:
Wallace, followed by Prósper, dismiss the idea of a *-wṓs participle base altogether;[3]
Untermann assumes a reformation to *sēpwos from *sēpwōs.[1]
↑ 1.01.1Untermann, Jürgen (2000), “O. vl. sipus”, in Wörterbuch des Oskisch-Umbrischen [Dictionary of Oscan-Umbrian] (Handbuch der italischen Dialekte; 3), Heidelberg: Winter, →ISBN, page 677
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sapiō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 538
^ Prósper, Blanca María (2022), “The Tabula Veliterna: A Sacred Law from Central Italy”, in Rivista Italiana di Linguistica e di Dialettologia, volume 24, pages 36-37.
